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The Shooting Method and Nonhomogeneous Multipoint BVPs of Second-Order ODE

Boundary Value Problems20072007:064012

https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/64012

©  M.K. Kwong and J.S.W. Wong 2007

Received: 25 May 2007

Accepted: 23 August 2007

Published: 28 November 2007

Abstract

In a recent paper, Sun et al. (2007) studied the existence of positive solutions of nonhomogeneous multipoint boundary value problems for a second-order differential equation. It is the purpose of this paper to show that the shooting method approach proposed in the recent paper by the first author can be extended to treat this more general problem.

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Authors’ Affiliations

(1)
Lucent Technologies Inc.
(2)
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
(3)
Department of Mathematics, The University of Hong Kong
(4)
Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong
(5)
Chinney Investments Ltd.

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